Panama celebrates tickets to the Central American and Caribbean Games

He Panamanian Taekwondo celebrates that five of his athletes won five places for Central American and Caribbean Games (JCC)since it is a historical fact, according to the members Panama Taekwondo Federation since this exceeded the number of quotas of the previous games.

The achievement of Panamanian taekwondo athletes is of utmost importance to Federationas this highlights the work of the women’s categories in both fighting and poomsae, opening the door to new generations of young Panamanian women in our sport and martial arts.

With their efforts, work and the support of family members, the athletes won the following quotas for the country at the JCC in Salvador in June: in the -49 kilogram category (Caroline Castillo), -57 Kg (Caroline Carstens) and -67 Kk (Brenda Brooks).

In traditional Poomsae (Daniel Rodriguez) and in freestyle (DAniela Rodriguez).

The achievement of this goal for athletes has been developing since 2022, where they won medals at the Bolivarian Games and the South American Games.

Eye, Brenda Brooks He opined that four women have earned their ticket, out of five spots for the Panama Taekwondo competition at the JCC: “It’s very exciting to see an all-female team, because it shows the level and greater involvement of women in competitive sports, especially this martial arts discipline.” , he adds, that it would be a pleasure to continue to see teams like this so that more women get involved in sports in any way that can help their development.

Brooks also advocates better preparation of athletes, adding that for a competition like gameyour Central America and the Caribbean, optimal preparation is required and that in your sport this includes base training with different highly talented teams and a series of competitions with the best possible opponents, all in order to have a large number of warm-ups with teams from different areas and make the national team worthy of Panama.

He added that we can achieve this with help Olympic Committee of Panama, since it is about the games of the Olympic cycle, so that we would have the necessary funds to help us implement this preparation and with PanDeportes who also provided us with assistance in preparing for this type of competition.

The winger pointed out that the JCC are the most important sports games in which he has the opportunity to compete in his short sports career, and that his purpose is to be able to participate at a high level, give everything for his country and try to get as far as possible in this competition, he used this opportunity entirely.

He used the opportunity to send a message to the Federation Taekwondo. “My message to the Panama Taekwondo Federation is to continue to support us, to continue to support us, because we are the future and with the support of the federation, I know that the four of us will play a big role in that. Games of Central America and the Caribbean.